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This paper, using data from the 2006 Irish Census, provides evidence of the structural
advantage of Irish speaking, relative to non-speaking workers in Ireland?s labour market with advantage and disadvantage being defined ...

This paper briefly summarises the evidence that Ireland has a relatively high level of
income inequality, which has been rather stable over time and reflects institutional legacies and choices made in the past. A comparative ...

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in its August 2009 Consultation
Paper, Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings, argues that a Code governing grocery supplier/retailer relations, enforced by an ...

Lemass rejected Whitaker?s recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public
investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because Lemass believed that it might ...

We study the short-run effects of shocks to government spending on Ireland?s output and
its real exchange rate. We show that the impact of government spending shocks critically depend on the nature of the fiscal innovation. ...